A range of companies, government agencies and universities have set up an international organisation with the aim of promoting insects as a viable feed and pharmaceutical resource.
The International
InsectCentre (IIC), based in Brabant, the Netherlands will develop joint
projects and rally towards breakthroughs in international legislation
and regulation. As a cooperative, the Centre will also help parties who wish to contribute to the promotion of insects for food.
According to research by Ohio State University's College of food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, planting soybeans into standing wheat not only results in higher
yields but also offers growers' a financial boost.
Steve Prochaska, an Ohio
State University Extension field specialist and member of the
university’s Agronomic Crops Team added that the technique, known as modified relay intercropping, results in the ability to capture 66 percent of the traditional growing
season, which allows production of a second crop through late May or early June.
South African news broadcaster eNCA recently reported on the proposed increase in location differentials by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).
The location differentials focus on the cost of transporting grain from registered silos in
different parts of the country to a central selling point in The West Rand District of South Africa.
Grain association, GrainSA commented on the proposal, stating that many grain farmers deliver much of their product to local
buyers and the location differential causes them to pay thousands in “imaginary” transport costs.
Watch the full news report here.
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| Wheat at the anthesis stage. Face view (left) and side view (right) & Wheat ear at the late milk (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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